David W. Shirey

Shirey Consulting Services LLC

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I am an experienced Project Manager (everything from ideation to post project analysis) with heavy technical expertise and a proven track record (see Recent Project Examples) of bringing value laden IT projects in on time and budget.

Although I am submitting this under my company banner (which makes you think 1099), I am not averse to coming in out of the cold for full time W2 employment.

Strategic Skills

Very experienced running multiple, complex projects simultaneously.

Place a very heavy emphasis on communication with all members of the project team.

Due to that, I work well in a true collaborative environment.

Stress involvement of stakeholders at all phases of the project.

Manage project budget AND project timeline.

Familiar working with both on site and remote staff, including off shore resources.

Am proactive, particularly in terms of anticipating and removing roadblocks.

Have a ‘close in’ focus – ‘what are we trying to accomplish today’.

Highly skilled liaison between vendors and the company resources.

I place great emphasis on managing both scope and expectations.

I have a calm, thoughtful presence and try to listen more than I speak. This allows me to mediate misunderstandings and find ways through difficult situations.

Can act as a BA and a PM.

Recent Project Examples

Spectrum Health (Hospital / Doctor Network) – Adolescent Access for MyHealth patient portal.

Goal – To modify the MyHealth patient portal to provide the ability for adolescents (ages 12-17) to view their own medical records and allow the adolescent, under doctor supervision, to grant parental access if appropriate.

My Role – It was imperative that this project be completed by the end of June 2017 and a review of the sprint results for February and March showed we would not be complete until August. I did not have direct authority over the development resources but reached out to development and BA management, got some of the developers reassigned to this project, got some other people refocused on their jobs, and got it back on schedule.

End Result – We were able to provide the visibility wanted by both doctors and parents, thus improving our customer and staff relationships. In addition, we became the first hospital group in the area to provide this option.

Spectrum Health (Hospital / Doctor Network) – eCoPay for MyHealth patient portal.

Goal – To modify the MyHealth portal to allow ambulatory patients to pay co-pay, by credit or debit card, when they did the e-checkin for their appointment several days in advance, resulting in faster cash flow for the organization (anticipated 14% improvement).

My Role – At the time I was given this project it was stalled because of disagreements between IT and the Finance Group. I got both sides together, identified the areas of concern for Finance, got them talking to the vendor of the product that would be used, and got reassurances that their issues would be addressed. The end result was the project got back on track.

End Result – This project was still underway when my contract was up but we were moving forward steadily after having been at a standstill.

Spectrum Health (Hospital / Doctor Network) – Server Environment Set Up

Goal – To get a new test server environment up and running more quickly than usual.

My Role – The first server set up project had no PM and took 6-8 months, primarily due to the silo-ed nature of the IT department and the inability of the silos to talk to each other efficiently. As PM of the follow up environment I concentrated on communication and acting as the liaison between the different groups so that as soon as one was done or ran into a problem that they needed help on we were in touch with the appropriate group to either carry on the work or resolve the issue.

End Result – We reduced the time to get the environment, tested, and turned over to the user base by 200%, from six months to two so that we were able to begin user testing on time for a major system redo. At the same time, we developed some techniques to short cut things in the future and result in a cleaner and more thorough set up and testing process.

Meijer (Grocery and Merchandise Retailer) – IT Integration to New Fully Automated Warehouse

Goal – To set up the IT environment to support a new, fully automated warehouse (configure server environment and load application software) in time for the scheduled user testing.

My Role – To lead the team consisting of about six different areas in IT to set up a completely new server environment and populate it with the appropriate software. Because of the silo-ed nature of the IT department this required constant communication between the teams. Failure to deliver the environment on time would have delayed the testing for both IT and the system for the automated warehouse, and jeopardized the final implementation. This was one of the three top projects for Meijer for this year.

End Result – Environment and application software were set up on time for the start of testing even though there were a number of false starts and issues particularly with the Sybase database set up. The key was keeping the silo’s continuously talking and preventing any downtime between the various teams.

Fremont Insurance (Home, Auto, Fire Insurance) – Analysis of IT Project Queue

Goal – To reduce the overall size of the IQ project queue and provide user based prioritization so that management was able to properly assign projects.

My Role – To carry out the analysis via a series of meetings with the user community over a period of a month and update the project management system with the results.

End Result – I reduced the number of items by 325% and got a priority on each one. As a result, project assignments were done by management based on project size and priority, not programmer preference.

Tactical Skills – Project Management

Have done Waterfall, Agile / Scrum (acted as Scrum Master) and ‘WaterScrumFall’.

In terms of tools I am very familiar with MS Project, PWA, Jira, Clarity, TFS, SharePoint, Salesforce, MS Office, Office 365, and a variety of (mostly) Agile web products.

Experience with a wide range of client Project Management methodologies.

Experience with a lot of different types of environments, projects, and expectations for my role.

On a project I can do everything from initial project ideation and definition, to writing the SOW and high level functional specifications, risk assessment and mitigation, developing and tracking timelines and budgets, set development standards, resource assignment, oversee QA testing, cutover planning, and post cutover follow up and audit.

Tactical Skills – IT

Familiar with Windows, Linux and mainframe environments.

Hands on experience with SQL, DB2 SQL/PL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Git, GitHub, Apache Tomcat, Eclipse IDE’s.

Solid understanding of server environments and a number of OO languages (PHP, Java, etc.) and Frameworks / Libraries.

Have done Digital projects, Infrastructure upgrades / replacements), Back Office application enhancements, ERP selections, installations or upgrades, and varied application modernization projects.

PM Related Publications

Technical Editor – SCRUM: Novice to Ninja, M. David Green, Site Point Press.

PM Related Article on Linked In –

Is a Single Corporate Culture ‘Bad’?

Blood Sport – Agile vs Waterfall

Three Aspects of Corporate Culture That Derail Improvements (coming soon)

PM Related Articles on my company web site.

Why Project Management?

Agile – What it Means

You’re Waterfall? – No Problem

Why Agile Won’t Work in Most Shops

You’re Not Doing Agile, You’re Doing WaterfallScrum

Timeline Employment History (past 20 years)

I have worked in a wide variety of industries ranging from automotive to electronics to medical supply to food production, fulfillment houses to food and beverage distribution to drugs (the legal kind) to hard manufacturing to health care to non-profit, and others.

With respect to IT, I began in mainframe shops, moved to the IBM i (AS/400), and for the last decade or so have been primarily in server shops.

For manufacturing I have done traditional MPS/MRP oriented ERP, procurement based systems, and various flavors of Kanban. This includes the usual suspects; engineering data base, forecasting, inventory control, purchasing and receiving, quality control, MPS/MRP/CRP, and shop floor execution and reporting.

On the distribution side I have worked with everything from ‘ship from the shop floor’ to high volume, automated distribution centers.

I am also fluent in EDI (X.12, EDIFACT, x.400, and XML).

Shirey Consulting Services, Owner, August 2003 – Present

Performed IT and business consulting for a variety of companies including both long and short duration involvement (details available upon request).

Systems Start Up / Computer Associates / SSA Global, Senior Consultant, November 1996 – July 2003

Performed primarily ERP implementations but also a variety of technical, EDI, and business improvement projects (details available upon request). This is listed as one entity because the changes in ownership were due to business acquisitions rather than my actually changing jobs.

Keeler Brass Company, Manager of Systems and Programming, 1985 – November 1996

Began as Systems Analyst and moved up to Manager of a 5 person team. Primary responsibility was implementation and then ongoing enhancements to the PRMS ERP system, plus set up and maintenance of EDI.

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